{"id":354,"date":"2008-04-26T19:17:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T19:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2009-01-25T22:01:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T22:01:48","slug":"horwich-morris-mens-pavement-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/26\/horwich-morris-mens-pavement-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Horwich Morris Men&#8217;s Pavement Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/SoHo\/Nook\/8023\/homepage.html\">Horwich Morris Men<\/a> performed their annual parade around Horwich today to celebrate St.George&#8217;s Day, but thanks to the sad compensation-led state of our legal system, Police will no longer organise rolling roadblocks, so roads must be closed &#8216;for safety reasons&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/HorwichMorrisMen2008.jpg' alt='Horwich Morris Men' \/><br \/><small>Horwich Morris Men make their way down Church Street from the Brown Cow<\/small><\/div>\n<p>Fortunately, rather than canceling the event, the organisers decided to continue but stick to the pavements.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bolton News, teams who were due to take part included: Wrigley Head, Mossley and Saddleworth morris men, Ripon City and the Britannia Coconut Dancers, from Bacup.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/SaddleworthMorrisMen2008.jpg' alt='Saddleworth Morris Men outside the Bridge, Horwich' \/><br \/><small>Saddleworth Morris Men performing outside the Bridge Inn<\/small><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Horwich Morris Men performed their annual parade around Horwich today to celebrate St.George&#8217;s Day, but thanks to the sad compensation-led state of our legal system, Police will no longer organise rolling roadblocks, so roads must be closed &#8216;for safety reasons&#8217;. Horwich Morris Men make their way down Church Street from the Brown Cow Fortunately, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,27,26,194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}